Alberta, Ontario and British Columbia have the largest populations of Latter-day Saints among Canadian provinces and territories.
A little more than 40% of Church members who live in Canada are Alberta residents. That province also has three of the nation’s nine Latter-day Saint temples, in Cardston, Calgary and Edmonton. Five other provinces British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia each have one temple. And the Winnipeg Manitoba Temple will be dedicated next month.
- Alberta — 41.4%
- Ontario — 26.9%
- British Columbia — 15.6%
- Quebec — 6.2%
- Saskatchewan — 2.8%
- Nova Scotia — 2.6%
- Manitoba — 2.4%
- New Brunswick — 1.2%
- Newfoundland — 0.4%
- Prince Edward Island — 0.3%
- Yukon — 0.1%
- Northwest Territories — 0.1%
Alberta is also the Canadian province with the most Church members per capita just over 2% of the province’s population, or about 1 in every 50 Albertans.
Yukon territory is second, with 0.75% of its population as Church members. British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan also have between 0.5% and 1% of their populations as Latter-day Saints.
